December 06, 2007

Larry Wall: Postmodern Computer Languages

Perl is a postmodern language, and a lot of conservative folks feel like Postmodernism is a rather liberal notion. So it's rather ironic that my views on Postmodernism were primarily informed by studying linguistics and translation as taught by missionaries, specifically, the Wycliffe Bible Translators. One of the things they hammered home is that there's really no such thing as a primitive human language. Link Posted by Tim at December 6, 2007 07:24 PM | TrackBack